Those changes are going on so often that if a man goes into any leading mill of the Saginaw Valley or of any part of Michigan. or Wisconsin. or Minnesota. or Canada. six months after be has seen it once. and he knows what the machinery is. he will see entire changes perhaps in the same mill and in its machinery. and the Canadians do manufacture in Canada mill machinery and agricultural implements. keeping up with the times. as good as are made anywhere. because the moment we have anything valuable here. without the royalty and without the patent the Canadian can take possession of it and have the free use of our invention and of our labor just as they want. and as their friends here want the Canadian to have the free use of the American labor in our midst. I do not need to dwell longer upon the fact that labor in Canada is cheaper than it is in the States by from 25 to 50 per cent. in all its .branches. and especially in the lumbering regions. There emigrated into the Northwestern States from Canada. of actual immigrants. families. young men. the bone and sinew of Canada. through one port. that of Port Huron. where I reside. 20.000 people in one year three years ago. and nearly that number since that in each year of emigrants from Canada came into the States. into Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota and Dakota to live there and to grow up there. because of the better wages and the better fortunes which they can make in the States. Tell me that the labor in Canada receives more wages than the labor in the United States! All these facts go to show how futile and foolish is such a proposition as that.
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